Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-05
WHERE TIE PANTHER LAID DOWN.

Overton Sharp-Shooter: Last week
we visited this beautiful, thriving, hosDi.
table little city and when we say beauti-
full, thriving and hOspita5Ie, we mean
/ sill that we say. For it stands upon q
| high bluff overlooking the Trinity river,
and IS beautiful situation as nature
ever formed. The town is nicely laid
out and elegantly built up, win sub
Staltiai buildings That il is thriving is
/ evident to every one VINO goes there.
/ Ten years ago there was not railroad TO
! Fort Worth, today they have railroads
reaching out in nine different directions,
and five other roads in contemplation,
TWO Of which are now being SURVEYED.
and II IS safe to say that by the end Of
| 1888, Fort Worth will have railroad COM
muuiCation in fourteen different direc-
tiOcs. The business and pros
perity of the town has kept
pace with the railroad building.
Ten years ego they had a population Of
perhaps 2000 all told, now they claim to
have $4,000, and we are certain that it is
not less than $4,000. This .hows that
population has kept pace with the public
Improvements. They have six national
banks with capital Of $780, 900. They
have near 200 a-tesian wells, which
furnish abundance of the finest water to
be found on the globe They have six
teen miles of street railway, and the
stock is said TO be at g premium Of 100
per cent. They have the tiaest and largest
store house in the state of Texas. They
have many magnificent residences that
would attract attention in any city in the
United States. They have two of the
finest end most Commodious hotels TO be
found in America. They have maLy miles
Of most beautiful Macadamized streets,
which are as smooth and hard as solid
stone. They have many miles of beauti-
full patent stone pavement, and ere grow
ing thousands upon thousands of beautiful
Shade trees. Being situated on high
bluff they have most perfect system of
sewerage.
They have al these things at Fort
Worth besides many other things. They
have TIE GAZETTE, the best daily news
paper published Ia the state Of Texas.
One other thing they have there that no
other town or city in Texas or anywhere
else has got, in fact no other town can
have it-they have got Peter Smith We
know Peter, we followed him in the great
war for four years He was one ofus; he was
loved and respected by all mis- men; he
rose from private 10 colonel. When
the war was over ne turned his attention
to peaceful pursuits, and he has managed
to endear himself to his fellow-t ownsmen,
the same as he did to his fellow-soldiers.
and that is the reason why Fort Worth
has gog go many large hearted generous
people. They ell try to be like Peter
Smith.
Yes; we spent the week in Fort Worth,
and we never got tired. We could spend
month there End not get tired, in fact,
we fully believe that we could live there
the balance of Our life and not get tired.
We Gil decided that we would 60 back to
Fort Worth in 1892, and see what i'm
provements could be made in five years.
If the present rate is kept up until that
time Fort Worth will be second only to
Chicago, as q western metropolis. We
looked carefully for the place where the
panther laid down, thinking that possibly
by the aid OF the electric lights, we might
find few hairs in the old lair, but we
failed to 1ud it. The panther got up and |
shook himself, and Peter Smith came |
along snd kicked him into the Trinity
river, and he was drowned, and so that |
was the last of the panther. But the place
where the panther laid down is still there,
and such is Fort Worth.